adding items to hidden nets.

Hi,

Have you seen this message, from an Altium employee:

 Announcement: CircuitStudio will no longer be sold by Farnell. It is available direct from Altium. 

According to that blog, it is possible to ask on the Altium forum. Altium staff are rather silent on this site (despite being members, they don't tend to reply often, leaving others to pick up the ball).

Hi, thx! Unfortunately its a gimmick or a broken system. The join pages leads you to a page that tells you to join. So you end up going in circles. Looks like at one point there may have been a registration page but now its just a circular link trap.

Existing Altium customers can create AltiumLive accounts for their entire team for free from your AltiumLive Dashboard. Click here to learn how.
--leads to

Simply request to join the AltiumLive community from the live.altium.com/#signin page.
--leads back to the first link,

It does say on a pop-up that the documentation is outdated.

It looks like the way to get to their support forum is https://live.altium.com/signin which gives the option to join: https://live.altium.com/Join or sign in if you have an account.

yeah I think what I need is the register. I do not have one yet and yes those pages I mentioned seem to imply you can but neither allow a registration.

I experienced a login loop, I try to login but it shows me the forums, and then dumps me back at the login page. It may be they have it tied to known email addresses that have a valid license? I'm guessing though.

yeah IDK, but I really appreciate your candor. Let me see if my main e.e here has a login but I doubt it.

Hi,

the warning about hidden nets is probably related to hidden pins on some multi part component, see 

https://documentation.circuitstudio.com/display/CSTU/WorkspaceManager_Err-AddingHiddenNetToSheet((Adding+Hidden+Net+to+Sheet))_CS

It looks like you have a hidden pin that wants a -15v supply, possibly an op-amp ? Its fine to rename the existing power ports to any net name you like, they're just net labels like anything else.

The driving source warning means you have pins that are marked as inputs but they aren't directly connected to a pin marked as an output. This happens a lot and is annoying as it fills the error report with junk. I don't really know what it's supposed to achieve, as it is very common not to have an input pin connected directly to an output.

You can either ignore it, (it's just a warning, not an error), edit the pin to make it passive instead of an input ( Edit Pins in the bottom left hand corner of the component properties), or set the condition to No Report in the Error Reporting page of the Project Options.

As for Altium I was already registered so when the announcement was made (best CS news in ages) I just signed in with my Altium user/password, so don't know what happening to their website.